Version 0.0.4 - Inward Reflections
#published 2011-08-01 11:00
#author Deb Nicholson

<p>You know how you feel when you make a couple of big decisions, clean
your whole apartment including "that" closet and finally build those
shelves? MediaGoblin totally had that month! This release is called
"Inward Reflections" because the lion's share of progress was made on
internal stuff, although we did find time to knock out a few external
goodies.</p>

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  <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_banner.png"
       alt="MediaGoblin 0.0.4 banner" />
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<p>Tagging! Users can tag photos:</p>
 
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_mouse_tags.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_mouse_tags-scaled.png"
           alt="A holiday card image with a mouse, tagged" /></a>
</p>
 
<p>And then they can click on those tags and see similar pics:</p>
 
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_creature_tag_listing.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_creature_tag_listing-scaled.png"
           alt="A gallery of media entries tagged with 'creature'" />
  </a>
</p>

<p>We made the user registration process clearer and added the ability to
disable registrations.</p>
    
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_verification_needed.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_verification_needed-scaled.png"
           alt="Post-registration 'verification needed' image" /></a>
</p>

<p>In addition to lots of general design tweakage, bios are now enabled
with markdown and pagination is much improved.</p>

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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_improved_pagination.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.0.4_improved_pagination-scaled.png"
           alt="Showing off the improved pagination" /></a>
</p>

<p>And about that closet, we spent some serious time improving our
migration code and unit tests. We extracted some key documentation
from Chris's brain and generated new docs from Sphinx. We threw out
all the unstringed tennis rackets and galoshes with holes. We've got a
new <a href="http://lists.mediagoblin.org/">mailing list</a> and a
new <a href="http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/">wiki</a>. In general, the
codebase and the project is significantly spiffier and more
approachable than it was last month.</p>

<p>In the magic contributor-thank-you-mirror, the MediaGobin sees; Chris
Moylan, Caleb Davis, Odin Hørthe Omdal, Joar Wandborg, Elrond of Samba
TNG, Chris Webber, Aaron Williamson, Rasmus Larsson, Deb Nicholson,
Will Kahn-Greene, Vinzenz Vietzke, Jim Campbell, Jef van Schendel,
Thorsten Wilms and Osama Khalid!</p>

<p>Best of all,
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/goals-for-our-first-alpha-release.html">
we're on track for our goal of launchable-site(s) in September/October</a>!</p>

<p>August will be spent finishing that and maybe getting in a few cool
extra tools and planning for federation and multiple media formats. We
could use your help! In particular, this month we could use a few
testers that are not already familiar with the codebase. No actual
python expertise is required for testing. If you've been waiting for
an entry point that doesn't require mad coding skills, this is it!
Please, <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/join/">join us</a>!</p>
